Hope everyone is ok. At least it's not summer with sweltering heat. Stay safe Millburn-Short Hills!

Does this mean they will not START working for a week, or that It will take 7-10 days for FULL restoration?

We aren't going to be told anything but 7-10 days, the standard line from every mayor quoted. They are staying out of making promises of better response. When it comes on sooner everyone will be thrilled. IMHO past year's storms left more noticeable damage. I heard lower Manhattan will have power within 24 hours and they were flooded with seawater only 12 hours ago. We're being fed a line.

Jcp&l should be giving a more detailed timeline for restoration. 24-36 hours to assess damage and to design an action plan. They have been throwing around 7-10 days since before the storm struck. How about an up-to-date estimate.

Our Town Neighbor-Maplewood was given a 3-5 day window from PSE&G.....why is JCP&L double that ???

http://maplewood.patch.com/articles/power-restored-over-next-3-5-days-mayor-says

As usual JCPL is lacking in providing useful information. I appreciate how significant this storm was but there was much more activity immediately following Irene and snowstorm. Finishing at 4:30 is really hard to believe. Not all the downed trees are tied up with live wire. The branches at the end of my street are not live (I saw some brave/stupid people walking over and around them. Lets keep pressuring. This 7-10 day timeline should be updated by now. I was out there and not nearly as many roads are as impassable as OEM is claiming.

PSE&G knows how to give a response and formulate an action plan. Damage assessment info should be available by now evident by the fact that PSEG provided one. Jcpl continues to show their incompetence.

What does the County have to say ? Both Millburn & Maplewood have major county roads--shouldn't those receive priority for emergency responders & deliveries for groceries/home depot/supplies ???

Does the town have to remove all trees, including those with wires before Jcp&l will come in? If so what is the road schedule for tree removal? How is the Town coordinating this with JCP&L?

PSE&G seems to be doing their job better. Newark got power back in less than 24hrs. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/10/pseg_restores_power_to_newark.html

Has anyone had there power restored yet in Millburn?

Same bs as Irene. did not see one truck yesterday eventhough most of the town was passable. JCPL know we have a very weak government and we are not a priority. fYI some costal beach towns dowm soth have there power restored. Most of livingston and west orange are also getttinf some power restored.When will we have a strong offical from millburn/SH advocate for us?

one has to assume they are doing everything humanly possible to get us back in business...I am just thankful I didn,t get a tree limb through my house...so many trees down that complicates the reconnection of the lines...based on my street..7-10 days seems fast considering the damage I see walking around...

Problem is it needs to be coordinated. By now Jcpl should at least have an action plan beyond the "7-10 days" that they were issuing before the storm hit. The town cannot remove trees with wires on them. Our street has numerous large trees down(more than 6) with wires on them. There is no power, yet we are receiving roto-calls from Jcpl that our power has been restored. We have not seen one Jcpl truck come by. If we could get a more accurate timeline, then we can plan better.

Also keep in mind, if you drive around there are not as many down wires as irene. Meaning mostly there are transformers out. Which are easier,less time coinsuming to fix and effects more people on the grid for power.

Hi, I'm trying to help out my parents who are quickly running out of gas for their generator. Does anyone have information about open gas stations in the neighborhood? or Neighboring towns?

Thank you!

I heard maplewood has gas stations open, as well as Orange & East Orange, specifically down Valley Street. That's where we got gas yesterday. I also heard some places on rt. 22 are open. Good luck!

Anyone see any trucks JCPL trucks working?

I haven't seen one truck out on the roads since the hurricane. This is bs. When Jcp and l says 7-10 for power, do they mean they will start it 7 days or don't expect "full" restoration for 7-10 days?

just spoke to someone who took a hour drive around town. No jcpl or township trucks working today. One of the Township workers stated they cant do anything until jcpl tells them to. So far jcpl is not in our town.

I would like to hear from the mayor what the town's action plan is? I am sure that our public works employees are working extremely hard, but I, for one, would like to know where they are now, what the priorities are, where they plan to go next and how is the mayor dealing with JCP&L.

any new updates here? besides preparing everyone for a horrific outcome of no power for 10 days, maybe we can get a realistic time frame considering the number of trees on wires is not nearly as bad as previous storms

Does someone know of any open restaurants or grocery stores that are open in and around Millburn to get some food?

Millburn mayor needs to update residents more than once every twenty-four hours. All surrounding communities have much better communication. We are still operating in the dark ages. The biggest news is the charging stations. Woeful updates on the websites. The last activist mayor was Maureen Ogden!

I agree that the Mayor needs to keep all residents informed about what the town's action plan is. I signed up for codered but have had no updates since yesterday

Smells like farts at the JCPL office. Like bad chili farts. Wish we had PSE&G like the old days. They were good.

Just heard on 1010 wins. Jcpl has informed them no power to our area before 10/10/12

If you live close to a hospital, chances are you are on their grid so the power companies work on those grids first due to the obvious reason of being able to have hospitals open and working to help people in need. The closest hospitals to M/SH are Overlook and St. Barnabas. Chances are most of M/SH are not on the same grids as those two medical centers.

Zim, I heard that as well. Been trying to confirm that for Millburn.

Just talked to summit resident. PSE&G restored his power yesterday

I find it absurd that the mayor has not given any additional information for a day, while residents are facing a period of as long as 10 days without power and a threat to the water supply (according to the patch articles). This information isn't even posted on the town website! I thought Town Hall was open today, what are they doing over there? How are we to know what is accurate? What sort of town are we living in and paying for when they can't even give us updates in a timely fashion? In this day and age of communication, even when nobody has power or cell phone service, I don't find it acceptable to go an entire day without updates.

Not a single bit of information from the town. He same boilerplate response from jcp&l that every town is getting. Not a single jcpl truck has been spotted in town yet. Is the mayor asleep? What about the manager? Are they doing anything at all? Why do they stay silent for 24 hours? We deserve better than this from our town, they should be ashamed of themselves.

agc

JCP&L does have to certify that the wires are dead before anyone can touch the trees. A lineman told me that last year when he was working on the lines near our house on the 7th day.

Was out this morning--not even a town truck in sight. This is the second time in two years. Explain to me what our exorbitant taxes go to if not to to clearing the streets in an emergency! This is the second time in two years and it's about time our Town Council started doing its job. I've lived in Millburn for 51 years and have never seen such incompetence

Has anyone tried to reach JCP&L directly? My fear is that these estimates are true and the mayor doesn't want to say it publicly for fear of an uprising. They're getting power back along the devastated Shore faster than we are. What gives?

Dear Mayor Haimoff:
I offer the following suggestion to help you keep this town moving forward AND connected. Based on your performance last year with Irene and the Halloween storm maybe you should consider 3 daily updates - 9am - 2pm and 7pm. Regardless if you have news or not you should schedule updates on clean up, power and other news the town needs to hear via the Patch and rely on the community to carry the news to through the town. If there is nothing to update you can tell us that as well - for example, "at this time we have no updates, next update at 2pm. Stay safe".

The key to keeping this town safe and happy is simple...OVER COMMUNICATE!

Just a suggestion. I want to see you win...it's good for all of us.

Yes 11/10/12. We must have a change in our local government. Btw, has anyone seen the work crews restoring power in Livingston ? Pretty impressive.

There have been 5+ trucks restoring infrastructure (poles wires etc) on Millburn ave since 7:30am. That will then feed neighborhoods and free up those crews to go there.
These guys are from Michigan.

This is clearly a lack of communication and leadership from Millburn town officials, especially the mayor. In times like this she needs to be a leader and a strong advocate for the town with JCPL. Look at how other mayors, governors and leaders are behaving. As a taxpayer (who pays a lot to live here), I'm angry, frustrated and disappointed.

Sadly, i feel helpless other than to vote these do-nothings out of office and put money where mouth is and do better myself.

Town GOVT- HOW ABOUT AN UPDATE??

I second zim's response in a change of government is needed. When you go to other towns you see progress. Tell us, what has been accomplished over the last 36 hours by JCP&L and our town? I thoughted the mayor was "yes'ed" to death when speaking to JCPL officials after the storms last year to ensure that wouldn't happen again

How does Haimoff keep getting re-elected.? She is so out of touch and has absolutely no connections with state and local officials.

I am following Sandra Haimoff on Twitter (@millburnmayor). She send an update at around 4 PM that garbage and recycling pick-up starting tomorrow on regular schedule, jcp&l is working on restoring transformers and substations that feed millburn

This is ridiculous! Given the amount we pay in tax dollars the very least JCPL and the mayor can do is give us a CLEAR answer as to when power comes back.

I refuse to get sucked into this vortex again.
I spent way too much time and personal emotional energy trying to fight city hall, specifically Mayor Haimoff and the town council, on the Patch comment boards last year following Irene and Halloween snow storm.

Not again!

I hope this town will finally realize Mayor Haimoff and this current town council is not up to the task of running this town effectively.

Good luck everyone.
Stay safe. Stay sane.

The least the township and the power company can do is to update on activities made each day and their impact. Tracking and reporting activities will provide us with more insight and helps push results.

Agrre with all the comments regarding mayor haimoff. She's up for reelection on Nov 6th. She is inopposed. I suggest we write in dan baer

Sorry. Meant to write unopposed

I suggest we protest outside of town hall and demand answers. The government works for us, they need to remember that.

And yet most of the township will vote for Sandy anyway even if the Democrats/Independents could actually organize themselves and present a candidate to oppose her. As they say, you get what you pay for...

Do you guys have any idea how much damage has been done to the entire New Jersey and New York area? Over 8 million people are without power. Search and recovery is taking place and the body count is rising. You should have prepared yourself for prolonged outages, food shortages, water shortages. This is a once in a lifetime sort of thing. Repair crews are arriving from all over the country to try to help but it is extremely overwhelming.

Millburn has handled at least five storms in the past 15 years with utter incompetence--Tropical Storm Danny (1997), Hurricane Floyd (99), Irene, last year's Halloween storm and Sandy. Different players in town hall, all useless. Rather similar to jcpl's strategy.

Do we have any chance to switch to PSE&G?

FYI - sad to break the news to everyone...the mayor is NOT elected...she's appointed by the town council. Makes me sad everytime I think of it.

We know other towns, inclouding Metuchen, parts of South Orange, Maplewood, Newark and Cranford who not only got answers, but got power restored quickly. We have neither. The utter lack of information and outreach from town officials to residents/taxpayers is astonishing. It is particularly disturbing to drive around town and see virtually no activity related to clean-up, removal of trees from wires, or anything else which will bring things back to something close to normal. There should be a "none of the above" option on the ballot next week.

I live in barnegat nj formerly from millburn. We received winds in excess of 90 miles per hour slamming my house like it was going to take flight. Needless to say we list power late Monday night...my 96 year old father who came down here to stay with us for a while still lives in millburn...for 96 years I might add...our power in barnegat came back on 3am this morning. I'm glad my dad is here. I don't understand what takes jcp&l take so long to restore power in millburn.

The problem is JCP&l. Pse&g has jus as many affected areas, yet they have complete their assessment are revised their response timelines. JCP&L had the equipment and manpower in place before the storm yet still can't update their response plan.

I recall from last year that the problem with switching electric companies is that Jcpl owns the lines. So any other electric co would have to pay Jcpl to use the lines.

can everybody please report the first sighting with location of a jcpl truck actually working, i saw one driving around 'surveying'....

anybody know why there has been no tree clean-up either, at least on the major thoroughfares. my guess - the power people are waiting for the tree people to do their job and the tree people are waiting for the power people to do their job...

private sector tree companies have cleared driveways and yards within hours of storm ending on Tuesday morning. why are our taxes so high? outrage.

The demise of Millburn township is the business administrator Tim Gordon. The Mayor has no authority here, and to be honest Tim Gordon is an unethical pos who has ruined Millburn.

We need to find out how to switch to PSE&G. Maybe we should all start paying our bills with the same attention JCP&L pay us. At the very least nake sure you don't own any FE stock directly or indirectly in mutual funds,pensions etc.

If a tree falls on my property and its not a "township tree" per say, BUT I am a township employee, can I assume it'll be taken care of as if it were a "township tree"? That's how we roll here, right Mr. G?

Can we do something abt getting rid of the mayor & jcp&l? i would def switch to PSE&G - this is the 2nd time in 2 that I have been disappointed - response is utterly poor from the company & the administration of this town..

You'd think there would be a whirlwind of activity in the streets but instead it's like a ghost town. Mostly people taking walks. Where are the town crews??? I understand about the live wires and all but seems like there are a lot of trees down that the town should be able to take care of.

Does anyone know someone of influence at JCPL that can provide tangible information for Millburn /Short hills. Certainly they have a list of towns and outages and severity and have ranked them in order of need. I would like to know if Millburn short Hills is a top priority, mid priority or lower priority to restore power and a true timeline. Information that is accurate is what is needed. The mayor needs to be working to provide constant updates.

Just like during the crises last year, the emails from Dr. Crisfield have 10x the information compared to the info we're getting from the town & Mayor. Don't understand why I'm learning more from his emails (and watching the news) than from the town.

As for me, I'm writing in "None of the Above" for town council on election day. I suggest you do the same.

Just saw on tv that storm-ravaged Sayreville is expected to have power back in 3-4 days. Millburn-Short Hills will take 7-10?????? This is outrageous.

The Mayor may be chosen from the Township Committee, but voters put those Committee members there. The fact that Haimoff is running unopposed is a sad reality that dooms us for more of the same incompetent "leadership" for the foreseeable future.

BTW, the Mayor of Maplewood is interacting online with constituents, answer questions, providing updated information, and trying to help. Check this out for an example of how our officials should be communicating:
http://forum.maplewoodonline.com/vc/discussion/88992/hurricane-sandy-maplewoods-response/p1

Yahoo article says 53,000 utility workers have come east to help. Utility companies pay fo them and pass on to customers if utility regulators say yes. Nj better say no to Jcpl given the lack of utility workers we have seen. Article says utilities don't know where there is lack of power and thus they fix substation to get a digital map. Well maybe if they listened to the numerous calls.

Chill folks, PSE&G still doesn't have towns like New Providence, Scotch Plains, etc with power. Rte 22 dark after Union. Mountain Side Loews is open for movies if you want heat and break for a few hours. Gas is scarce down there. Traffic lights are back on in downtown Millburn w/out generator. Yeah progress!!!
FEMA sending trucks from all over US to get us power now. It shouldn't be long now. Please call JCP&L everyday 1-888-544-4877 to report your outage. Just need your billing phone number to report, not acct number. All automated. Get our numbers up there for outages.

We should look into what Madison has done with their independent power system.

I emailed the mayor at her "official" email address. Of course, no response. Who has a personal phone number for her or knows her address? This is ridiculous. What is she doing to advocate for the town? Or communicate with her constituents? This is a total dereliction of responsibility. The office of mayor isn't just for fun or self-aggrandizement. It's for leadership at times such as this. C'mon folks. Let's start demanding response. Enough is enough.

Just called the above number (JCP&L 1-888-544-4877 ). While the Gentleman on the phone was ver nice, had no new info. I expalimed to him that surrounding towns that were hit as hard if not harder then us have some of their power restored. I alao mentioned how i constanly see worker around the clock in livingston,summit,west orange etc. and none in our town, he said they are still ASSESING our situation. Please keep calling the number and inidate tem with complaints,

I am repeating my earlier post because I believe in it:

Dear Mayor Haimoff:
I offer the following suggestion to help you keep this town moving forward AND connected. Based on your performance last year with Irene and the Halloween storm maybe you should consider 3 daily updates - 9am - 2pm and 7pm. Regardless if you have news or not you should schedule updates on clean up, power and other news the town needs to hear via the Patch and rely on the community to carry the news to through the town. If there is nothing to update you can tell us that as well - for example, "at this time we have no updates, next update at 2pm. Stay safe".

The key to keeping this town safe and happy is simple...OVER COMMUNICATE!

Just a suggestion. I want to see you win...it's good for all of us.

Right now, you're not winning...and we're all losing.

COMMUNICATE!!!

Amazing to see the difference in handling of the storm between pse&g and jcp&l. Pse&g provides daily email updates on progress and has already restored power to half of its impacted customers, all while jcp&l is silent and "assesses". Millburn township needs to push for a switch to pse&g. Given our new weather reality, we simply cannot afford to have a sub-standard electricity provider any longer. Need real change here or Millburn will continue to suffer in the future.

im sorry to say that more communication from they mayor will be usless. She has no new information because JCPL continues to ignor her. Just like previous storms. She and many of our other town officals are pretty usless in these matters. However, speed bumps and changing to color of the street signs are where they excel.

Updates to Springfield residents every hour by Mayor Shehady. He has also been going block to block daily, handing out updated bulletins to residents. Sounds like an amazing leader. Millburn can only dream. Times like these show people's true colors. Get it together Millburn!

For those with internet access (via phone etc) I'd suggest reading ziad shehadys updates on his web page or Facebook page. Even tho he isn't speaking of Millburn directly, it is our immediate area and does shed some light.

Just by accident, I found that the Township DOES have a web page where they providing updates: http://www.twp.millburn.nj.us/municipal-services/emergency.html

Two problems: 1) They haven't publicized this at all, so no one knows about it.
2) The information is not timely nor is it particularly useful

I apologize if this has been mentioned before, but I have to give Kings in SH a mention. They have been keeping this town going when everything else is shut down. Awesome job!!!

Fine, so JcPL isn't telling Sandy Haimoff anything. That still begs the question : why isn't she out there banging heads, calling our reps at the state and federal levels - and why isn't she communicating with the town the way our neighboring mayors are?

I think you answered tour own question. She's inept.

Sandy Haimoff needs to take lessons from the mayor of Springfield. Although I am a SH resident he has done a terrific job. Sandy needs to keep the town in the loop, and I hope town council kicks her out of office when they next convene.

The police and fire update on wires, trees etc. has not been updated for two days. Where do we live? Saw a JCPL truck yesterday and they said they were "assessing".

As I'm sure most of you, through our PSE&G gas service account I get service updates from them on at least a daily basis. Last update stated that around HALF of affected customers had service restored.

Finally JCP&L included this morning an update on their website that even included ANYTHING about NJ. They've had OH & PA up there since the day after the storm.
Not just from this event, but from every other time in the past where there's been an outage I get the impression that JCP&L couldn't care less about anything that happens in NJ. And why should they? They're located 2 states away, in effect outsourced. In all my NJ life of living in PSE&G-served areas have I gotten any response (or lack) than with JCPL, up to telling me that severe weather caused an outage when it was really a botched repair job 2 blocks away (and taking 30 min to get that info).
PSE&G is owned by PSEG, located in NEWARK.

Maybe it's time we take steps to get off of an Ohio company and get one on from NJ, that has a vested interest in NJ (because they all live here, too). Why are we even on them to begin with with every other town except for Livingston is on Public Service?

Enough is enough. What do the citizens need to do to get action. Its obvious that the town isn't going to be doing anything. JCP&L just told me all they are doing when you call is reading from their website. I can read myself. Meanwhile people are being stupid, if a 30 foot tree falls in your yard, please do not put it in the street like its Christmas tree pick up, there are no street lights and its going to cause an accident!

I saw one JCPL truck yesterday come up the road and then turn around and go back down So. Orange Ave. Lost I guess. Shouldn't have been in our town.

I am more convinced than ever that we as a community need to come together and mobilize. Our elected officials are just incompetent and do not even bother to repond to any questions. Let's start putting out some ideas and perhaps form a group. Where are our local associations that we contribute money to every year? We have not heard from one of them yet.

Okay, I just moved to Millburn in September, I left before the storm to stay in Brooklyn, with my dad. I'm returning today, here are some questions: 1) are there any bus services to get me to manhattan come monday? 2) is the November 10th for power really set in stone? 3) I've been following JCP&L outage website and wonder have they updated it at all since tuesday, the numbers haven't changed. 4) is millburn ave safe to drive? 5) what is the train situation overall?

If u go to Madison.patch, their town has power back. Mayor said Jcpl sent crews and said they would not leave until Madison was up and running. Seems Jcpl rushed to Madison as they have own power company and thus all of Madison is one big cuts to Jcpl instead of individual customers like us. Mayor needs to put pressure on Jcpl.

Meant to say All of Madison is one big customer.

Btw mayor has 58 followers on twitter. How does she expect to communicate anything effectively with 58 followers? If ineffective, she should have taken other action to communicate

Update: accordinging to the JCP&L wesbite Millburn has 7percent power back compared to zero this morning, anyone confirm this or got power back?

Why is it that PSE&G is able to go from 1.7 MM customers without power to <900,000 on three days and JCP&L is still assessing the damage

Looks like no use only talk here. we need to send message out. here is an article "Hurricane Sandy response time: How's your town doing?" on http://www.nj.com/essex/ we can ask help from there.

Can anyone confirm or deny the rumor that JCP&L was working all night to get the MALL up and running?

We're working off there energy first page. On Monday late it had 97 percent without power, yesterday it was at 100 percent. This morning at 8, 100 percent, and hour ago 93 percent.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/nj_utilities_offer_estimates_o.html#incart_m-rpt-2

In this article, JCP&L says they have restored power to 20% of customers. Rest restored within a week.

http://outages.firstenergycorp.com/rep_m.html?region=nj

jcp&l's twitter is: @JCP_L

Last update a min ago that they will post info by city when available.

Spoke with power crews last night, millburn ave has been repaired in terms of transformers/polls/wires. However, we just have to wait for the substation to be repaired (after driving past this am, it was a mess) and hey, let's atleast be gracious to the electrical crew. They came to help us all the way from Michigan..

I called JCPL this morning. They told me what the nj.com article says. That power should be restored within 7 days, but the hardest hit areas will be an additional 7 days. I asked if they could confirm what would be considered the hardest hit area (since our entire town is out of power, who knows if we are considered the hardest hit area), and they were unable to confirm what area we fell within. I asked where the crews were, since I've seen none, and she said that there were crews working and recovery is in "process".

I called the township phone number as well hoping to get an update. I give the guy who spoke to me kudos because he was actually sympathetic and agreed that an update from the town would be helpful, considering there hasn't been anything on the town website for over a day regarding power restoration. He said crews were working on restoring power along Millburn Ave, that there were a lot of transformers blown and the sub stations sustained a great deal of damage. He confirmed that their fix along Millburn ave, was not a fix at all, whether that is still the case i am unsure. thus the decrease and increase in JCPL #s.

A crane has been brought in and trees are being removed from Mountainview and Undercliff that have fallen on houses. They will then proceed through rest of town Poles and lines fixed on Millburn Ave. but when power turned on last night there was a problem at the Chatham sub station which directly feeds into Millburn so they are presently looking for where the problem is so that it can be repaired

Thanks to Stephanie Nesser I am back on Patch....sorry had trouble with password and when not at town hall can only use iphone which totally ran out of power I will try to get info to you as soon as I get it Water and ice will be distributed at Ed Center I will notify when it arrives As of yesterday afternoon JCP&L still indicating 7 days Gero and Bauer open for charging

FYI the grace period for the 2012 fourth quarter taxes is extended from November 7th to November10th As the 10th falls on a Saturday and we are closed for the holiday on Monday Nov. 12th the last day to pay taxes without interest will be Tues. Nov 13th, 2012

Rec Dept info In town soccer on for Sat. check call tape 564 7096 after 12 Friday to verify location All optional scrimmage games 8th grade dance postponed Golf course closed Friday open Sat.

@millburnmayor Where are you and JCP&L? Silence is the worst thing you could do for your residents. #GetMillburnOnline

Who cares about soccer and the 8th grade dance!! Lets focus on the macro environment, like restoring power to the residents!! Key word is residents too, they need to be prioritized over some pizza place on millburn ave. how about power restoration to the canoe brook water plant? What's the update there?

So bottom line, are there lights on on Millburn Avenue?

We appreciate the update, Craig--and we appreciate the town emergency line's early afternoon call with the little new jcpl info you have. Please keep the communications coming regularly.

There's no way for me to check updates from the town in absence of power. How about a local radio station or provide town specific updates to existing stations like WNYC? I am listening to WNYC radio and all I hear about is Manhattan, Westchester, Breezy Point, Rockland county updates. Almost zero info about NJ except Hoboken. I have no idea about what's happening in my town but know a lot about what Mayor Bloomberg is doing for NYC. How about Mayor Bloomberg for our next Mayor of Millburn?

Maple wood center has power. What accounts for such disparity in restoration from one town to the next? BTW, our Glenwood area has had zero attention to downed wires and trees - very dangerous conditions.

The communication provided in Millburn Patch/comments section has been a wealth of invaluable information.

Would like to request that township release JCPL contact information who are responsible for providing updates/addressing questions.

Invested residents would undoubtedly provide more rapid, informative and effective updates if we reached out to JCPL ourselves.

PSEG is actively meaning right now working on lines just across the Mllburn border in Maplewood. Cherry packers workers etc. Again and again PSEG either maintains Power right across the border when JCPL loses it or restores it long before JCPL. Every time.

Mayor Obama said his tem would answer in 15 min any municipal leader that called, incl mayors. If u were on gov conf call and got no traction for millburn that take Obama up on his offer. It cannot hurt and he may spurn Jcpl into more effective action for our town. Tree with wires was removed by town as town said could not wait for Jcpl process - no idea what they are assessing. This was a risk to town workers.

Mayor hainoff, Obama said his team would answer in 15 min any municipal leader that called, incl mayors. If u were on gov conf call and got no traction for millburn that take Obama up on his offer. It cannot hurt and he may spurn Jcpl into more effective action for our town. Tree with wires was removed by town as town said could not wait for Jcpl process - no idea what they are assessing. This was a risk to town workers.

Is anyone seeing ANY work being done in any part of our town? Does anyone have connections with any of our state representatives?

Excellent suggestion.

Governor Christie has on his website a place to report concerns or issues. There is a drop down for public utilities with power lines.
http://www.state.nj.us/governor/contact/

Sending him an email now. Suggest we all do the same.

Maplewood Center may not have lost power so I don't believe it was "restored" before Millburn. Also how can you ask the mayor to overcommunicate and then criticize for the rec info? The central issue appears to be with JCPL compared to PSEG. Let's stop complaining and figure out how to connect JCpl's license to operate in NJ with better service and better communication.

The mayor is personally battling the same power issues we are. It is hard for her to communicate just like it is hard for so many people.

I am sure that JCP&L is facing major problems but it is legitimate to ask why, despite their promises, they were not better prepared to jump into action quickly and hard.

FYI. Just heard a JCPL rep on WFAN. Said the reason most people are without power (us) is the inaccessible roads in our town. The are accessing the situation via helicopter (which I have heard). Are they kidding! THE STREETS ARE NOT THAT BAD! Project date for all power the be restored in these areas is now 11/14. WTF!

I sent Christie a message. Maybe we can fix what our Mayor can't...

Cleared the major roads?

Today, Thursday, Hobart, Glen, White Oak Ridge, Short Hills Ave and Parsonage near JFK were all closed. REALLY?

Township performance sucks again.

Just what we need now:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/forecast_models_show_potential.html#incart_river_default

Why is it that Chatham, Wayne and even Conneticut are getting power and not one person in Millburn has. JCP&L has not restored to anyone per the town hall. How is this happening again. We are not a 3rd world country. Now I hear we are on a 6pm curfew because of home robberies. This is a nightmare.

JCP&L currently has crews working directly on the two substations and major transmmission lines that service Millburn Short Hills. While they are reporting significant damage to these, they will be working full time until they are repaired. Because of the amount of damage they are still estimating seven to ten days for restoration though some locations in town might phase in sooner.

Spoke with essex county who will be sending crew out to remove tree on Brookside between Glen Ave and So Orange Ave. that is a county road..once that is done that road should be openl

Is there a township or area residency requirement for the people we hire? Maybe if there were one they'd be more inclined to treat this like the emergency it is.

So. . . the Short Hills Mall has power? From generators, I hope. Because I hate to think that the merchants have their power back and down the street, all the way up Hobart, into Millburn and Wyoming, people are shivering in their homes!

Mayor Haimoff is an idiot. The mayor of Springfield has it right. Mayor Haimoff you fail to respond to members of your community on here, the mayor of springfield provides hourly updates online and interacts with members of his community online. Ms. Haimoff shame on you, I hope you leave town you do not deserve to live in this fine community. You are not worthy of the title of Mayor. Hang your head in shame.

http://www.facebook.com/shehady?fref=ts
This is how a mayor should act

As with the last disaster lots of people who have a better way to address recovery and communication..its not too difficult to get your name on the ballot...its even easier to attend the township meetings.

I am a teacher in Millburn and have been following this thread to see what is going on. I am certainly concerned for my students and their families in this difficult time. In Montclair/Bloomfield, covered by PSE&G, many residents who still don't have power have been given the date of November 9th for resumption of service.

Can we finally switch out JCP&L for PSE&G after this? PSE&G is so much more responsive, and after 3 week-plus outages in as many years, JCP&L's relative shortcomings are all the more apparent. Of course Sandy is exceptional but JCP&L's substandard communications and customer services never fail to disappoint.

By the way Twitter hashtag #NJGas has info on open gas stations...

Seriously, if the Short Hills Mall is up and running because they got theirs from JCP&L, and the hell with the rest of Short Hills, we should all boycott them. I can't wait to hear the real story.

This is a multiple part post to work around the character limit. Apologies in advance

While I share the frustrations about the lack of concrete information, I am cognizant of the massive undertaking that this must be and am sure the township council,mayor et al are doing their best to get us back on track. I do think that a few concrete ideas on how to improve communications with some more community involvement might help the situation a bit. That said, here are my initial stream of ideas :

1) establish a volunteer communications team /person. I'm sure many on this board, myself included would gladly volunteer to help with this. Involve these volunteers in the communications with utilities/other agencies so that they may quickly disseminate detailed info to an increasingly struggling town populace.
2) as suggested on this board, have the council or the volunteer team send out hourly/3hourly updates with the latest information available
3) ask for specific plan of action information from JCP&L and deliver good or bad news early. This would include details such as how many people have been committed by JCP&L to Millburn, what specific challenges they are facing, if they complete the current step, what comes next, some kind of sequence or plan of attack on how they will attack the various streets etc. This will at least give people a rough idea of where they are in the sequence. Communicate the questions being asked and the answers or lack thereof being given.
4) Organize/Publicize volunteer efforts to help the community (or at least the safely approach

While this storm has been extremely taxing, I am fortunate to have absolutely fantastic neighbors who have looked out for me and made me (a newcomer) feel very welcome and supported. I would like to return that favor to the community at large, as I'm sure other civic minded people in town who are going stir crazy at home without power would like to do, to move this massive effort along.
I'm sure with broader involvement and more information tempers would flare less and the frustration would hopefully dim as we collectively realize how massive this problem is. I apologize for the long post, but this is my $0.02. If all of the above is already being done or is impractical then perhaps sharing more what is being done and attempted or why the suggestions/requests made by previous posters and me are impractical itself would be a great start.

All the Township Committee member email addresses are on the Millburn website. I urge everyone reading to send them a message and let them know how you feel. Next to voting and attending meetings, this is the best we can do to make our voices heard - loud and clear.

http://www.twp.millburn.nj.us/town-govt/committee-members.html

I returned to Millburn today, and as a newbee I have to say, Mayor are you kidding me? I come from New York and sadly,even Bloomberg is getting it right. How can you speak to a power company and they push back their deadline four days and you say okay,now, it is acceptable for some to be without power as the damage is understandable but honestly, THE WHOLE TOWN is dark. Do you feel bad? It's freezing in town, gas is hard to find, you should consider calling the governor, people can't live like this for long.

Mayor Haimoff, please answer this very specific question:
Who is responsible for tree removal? The town? The county? The utility companies? In the Glenwood section, NOTHING has been cleaned up. Nothing. How can wires and poles be restored if they are still covered with debris? When will this job begin? Mayor Haimoff, please respond with specific information. Thank you.

In my opinion, we cannot expect any more from the mayor because she really just does not have the ability to do what everyone here is asking her to do. I'm unhappy about that, but I know that she just can't.

Item had this informative article today - Most JCP&L customers expected to get power back Nov. 7
http://www.northjersey.com/news/176891351_Most_JCP_L_customers_expected_to_get_power_back_Nov__7.html

One part of the article kills me:

JCP&L is in town checking wires that are entangled in trees to determine whether or not they are live, according to Haimoff.

My comment on this quote from Haimoff - if the entire town doesn't have power, isn't it safe to assume that the wires tangled in trees are not live!

Sandy Haimoff, not nearly as productive as Hurricane Sandy.

I know this isnt the right thing to say, but there are some places that were told "hopefully by Christmas" for power.

Now THIS is an update:
http://madison.patch.com/articles/downtown-madison-has-power-restored
Note that most circuits are expected to be restored tomorrow (Friday) and a DETAILED list of streets expected to take longer is provided. Also heard morristown restored in large numbers today.

http://mobile.nj.com/advnj/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=ZKeg8l5o&full=true#display

This is compete BS. As of 12:30 pm 11/1/12 the JCPL map showed 737 customers without power. Now showing 7816 customers. Does anyone have a clue. Is anyone really helping us? BTW by Monday night the tempture in millburn will be below 32 degrees. Whats Millburns plans to deal with possible deaths of elderly and young as they freeze?

Mayor Shehady has been traveling around Soringfield in an emergency op vehicle the past few days and with a loud signal, instructing homeowners to come out of their homes- while then distributing bulletins with updates regarding power, etc. Brilliant! Not everyone has access to the Internet for updates so again, a wonderful measure to keep residents up to date. He is also present at Springfields warming stations to talk with residents. I'm sure this young man hasn't slept a wink ...mayor haimoff a little effort would be appreciated during this difficult time,

First we need our power back, then ELECT a real mayor, then switch to pseg. our Idiot mayor should resign IMMEDIATELY

BTW, Manhattan Should Have All Power Restored Today, Con Ed Says. Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Manhattan, slowed by power outages,
flooded subways and closed markets since Sandy struck Oct. 29,
should have electricity fully restored by the end of today,
Consolidated Edison Inc. spokesman Robert McGee said.

Anybody have a idea why mayor Idiot closed the SH mall @ 6pm yesterday? Was it because it was the only local place open with heat and food?

Zim the mall was closed by police. It was closed so the police could work throughout the township.

how many Police officers work the mall? I thought their was private security at most stores?

The woeful Millburn Township website was updated with Trash Collection and recreation news. The last update on roads etc. was 10/31. What an abomination. I sure would like to know what our Business Administrator is doing in a Town Hall with power. It is embarrassing to say the least. I have heard from friends in Madison, Convent Station, Berkeley Heights and Livingston who got their power on yesterday.Where are we headed.?

Anyone following "Mayor" Haimoff's twitter feed is crazy! The only thing you are going to learn is how warm her daughter's house is, or whichever relative's home she has fled to. Does anyone actually think she's living in her freezing cold house?

For that matter, is any member of the "Township Committee" still in town? Or were they hoping the lights came on before anyone noticed that they had left!

The people in this town need to contact anyone they know in State Government, County Government, Utility Commission, to complain. Venting about Haimoff and her cronies is not going to get the heat on. We can throw them out of office later!

So today is day 5, shouldn't we start to see a massive drop in number of people without power in our town?! I find it totally unacceptable that Hobart and now White Oak Ridge is closed. Those are two main roads. It is considerate to clear the path to St Barnibas, but how about getting to Overlook? And now 124 is a parking lot of cars waiting to get gas.

Livingston has had SIGNIFICANT changes in the ammount of power they have, and yet, last night, Millburn's numbers without went up? I hope we aren't robbing Peter to give to Paul.

we're not down a lot, but we're down 400-500 from laaaaate last night.

MLav, not to be a downer but for most of yesterday Millburn was 93 percent without power, after 7pm they were back up to 97 percent without power, so I'm not very hopeful this morning when it's down to 91 percent without power. It could change. The Livingston numbers are solid. I truly feel we're on the good graces on some out of state never heard of company that came in to help rather than out own providers at this point.

This is a direct quote from Mayor Deluca of Maplewood. Why can't our officials respond like this? http://forum.maplewoodonline.com/vc/discussion/89345/post-hurricane-sandy-maplewoods-response

" We spoke with PSE&G folks again today and believe that we will see more crews over the next few days. This does not mean that the power will come on automatically or all at once across town. We still have 90+% of customers out and some areas are severely damaged. It will take time but I believe we will see some action Friday and this weekend. I know PSEG has begun telling people it will be November 9th but that is unacceptable and we will not allow that to happen.

Our pressure yesterday yielded results. There have been more PSEG trucks in town. You also probably saw the orange trucks with tree cutting crews. These are contract workers for PSE&G. We told them we needed trees removed where there are live wires or trees leaning on wires. The responded by sending in crews today. A good number of additional streets that Public Works could not clean up have been opened by these PSEG crews. "

Couple of interesting links:

Christie's plan to punish the utilities: http://nj1015.com/nj-utility-companies-could-face-steep-fines-for-power-delays-audio/

JCP&L just finished "upgrades": https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/fecorp/newsroom/news_releases/jcp-l-completes-equipment-upgrades-to-improve-service-reliabilit3.html

Gas should be back soon?: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/02/us-storm-sandy-gasoline-idUSBRE8A10NG20121102

Here's one place we might start if we're looking for a long-term change from JCP&L: http://www.state.nj.us/bpu/about/divisions/energy/

http://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/governor/govmail/govmail_2c_new.pl
Everyone pls send a note to Gov Christie about the lack of JCPL response. The roads are not as bad as Halloween storm so comments about delay in power restoration due to assessment are inexcusable. If anything, ask Gov to fact check JCPL's statements to see if true. There is a another storm next week being forecast that will see temps drop below 30 and bring potential rain/snow/sleet. Pls stay warm.

See www.nixle.us/83SHR from my local PD text alert service linking to NJ Office of Emergency Services current "list of pharmacies, hotels, restaurants and GAS STATIONS up and running."

Now thats how you run a town.

All I know is Tuesday on election day I am writing in Craig McCarthy of Patch for township council. I hope you are a resident Craig :) . And seriously, how do we have a town administrator telling us our municipal trucks are running out of gas? It is as if Hurricane Irene never happened and no planning was done.

Reminder (as found on the township website, http://tiny.cc/n5g5mw) - "Township Committee members will be available to meet with the public on Mondays from 8:30AM to 10:30AM on the 2nd floor of Town Hall in the conference room."

Let's line up now.
Could be an interesting two hours.

Great right at the beginning of when most people go to work. Either way I am going to attend and will comment.

I encourage ZIM, CZ and others to run for township committee; if your platform details a disaster leadership plan then you have my vote. Change will only happen if you get involved directly... I remain encouraged that even without power, citizens have the ability to complain, gripe and whine...only in AMERICA!

As disappointed as everyone in Millburn township's lack of response- its disgusting! Going to step in and call FEMA regarding our utility truck's low on fuel.

Also, why are our utility teams stopping work at 430??? Good grief- we are not in a bank holiday. also, person manning town line said JCPL said power back within 5 days- unacceptable

Is Mayor Haimoff running for re-election on Tuesday?

Maybe media should be at that meeting. And now it looks like a noreaster is coming on Tuesday.

Friends
I left a message for the mayor via town hall yesterday and she called me back on her cell phone. I'm not comfortable posting the number here but I encourage you to reach her yourself as I did. Maybe if she hears directly from a lot of residents...

I'm hoping we can find a write in candidate before election day. Let's try to figure out the rules and post people at all sites to write in a candidate for Township Committee!
We can do this!

There is an article in today's Item that says (quote):
"As of noon on Wednesday, a tree was still down between Glen and South Orange Avenues on Brookside Drive, an Essex County road. Haimoff has contacted Essex County about removing the tree to clear the road."

I thought Gov. Christie had directed towns and counties to cut the red tape and just solve problems??? Why can't the town just clear this tree and worry about who owns it later? This is a microcosm example of our poor leadership.

Head of jcp&l is on nj101.5 now!

That's odd...usually his head is up his.....you know where.

Thanks for NOTHING NJ
http://conservativebyte.com/2012/11/no-red-tape-new-jersey-turns-away-non-union-relief-crews/

That was appropriate given the circumstances. If you require an PG version, you will be disappointed.

I was not "inferring" anything. I was direct.

Same as we have been hearing. Nothing new. His name is Ron (did not get last name) and he is now "spokesperson".

And he said that they have not turned away any any non union crews. He said that was not true.

I have been reading these threads incessantly since this all started and as I see the restoration of power in the surrounding towns and nothing happening in Millburn I am completely disgusted. I am sitting here in the cold with my children living like animals and whether she is elected or appointed, incompetent or merely unable it has become painfully clear yet again our mayor should not be in any position of authority. We rely on her to protect our interests and at no time is it more important than at a time of crisis and yet again she has failed miserably. She is utterly inept and has not lived up to her primary responsibility. Being mayor is more than just carrying around a pretty business card, it's not a hobby, it is serving your community and you mayor are are not qualified to serve frozen yogurt. This is a serious job and if you have one scintilla of integrity you will resign when this is over so we will at least have a fighting chance of getting someone with the skill and where with all to protect our interests. I am absolutely disgusted at your ineptitude and partially blame myself for being so complacent and letting someone like you remain in this place of authority for so long.

Waiting for the county to clear the trees since its their road...incredible.

We have a lot of able-bodied men at home right now who can't get to work. If the township doesn't do anything, the residents should pitch in to clear the trees. Bring out those STIHL, Husqvarnas and other dreaded chainsaws and let the downed tree massacre begin. Those JCPL trucks better be there to start repairing soon after the roads are cleared.

Election info voting will be on Tues and you will be notified via code red, additional flyers and website postings we are presently trying to find a location in the township charge centers will be open over the weekend will be open from 10 until 2

The response in Millburn has been a complete disgrace. No discernible progress has been made in almost a week.. In fact, the roads and powerlines look worse today than earlier in the week.

Total disgrace and the mayor should be ashamed.

I was in Short Hills mall yesterday and the whole place was full of people looking for some electric juice for their digital toys. I wish I could teleport some of that energy to my home to run the heating system in my house so that my 3 year old doesn't have to wake up at 1 am and complain about the cold. Some of the areas of Millburn look completely normal and I wonder why no one is paying attention to at least restore power to the least affected areas. I mean, what happened to tackling the low hanging fruit kinda issues first to show some progress?

The town hasn't even asked for volunteers! Plenty of people would volunteer their services to help the community at this point. The town doesn't seem too concerned with peoples safety or sanity, considering the temps are going to go below freezing, nobody has power, people are lighting fires to stay warm, burning candles to provide light and not even a warning asking people to exercise caution. Just a reminder that if your fire alarm is hard wired and without battery backup it isn't working most likely.

I also read about another storm - mix of rain and snow heading our way next week. What is the township doing to prepare for that? I think we need a heated and powered shelter space for town residents esp. elders to beat the freezing temps.

Thanks for the election update mayor, stay nice and warm at your daughter's. I'll be sure to think about that as I sit here freezing looking out my window ast the trees in the street. You suck!

IMM, agreed. I would think some shelter in town would be set up to combat the powerless town. The use of the buildings with generator power that sit empty at night is an idea. My suggestion to the Mayor is to open these buildings for people to get warm and sleep on the floor if necessary to beat the freezing temperatures at night. Although many may not use the option, the option should be there.

Please don't bother the mayor she's getting a snack of grilled cheese and a coco. After all its cold out there.

Imm/Binders/Earl/et al: Okay, so the town is not asking for volunteers. Time to self organize. If people are willing to put actions behind their words, we might actually be able to make a serious impact this weekend. Here's how I see it:
1) We need a list of tasks that we can triage and accomplish (WITHOUT undue safety risk or rule breaking!)
2) We need to identify the skills and tools that we have available
3) We need to identify a central meeting place from wherein we can get organized.
4) We need to make sure that as we tackle the problem we optimize for GAS! Carpool to work locations/good ol bicycles/walking etc.
5) We need to make sure we come armed with PB&J, water or whatever it takes to make it through the day so as to maximize the time we are committing instead of breaking away for food/nourishment.
Even if 5 people step up, that's enough to make a big dent. I have participated in many Habitat4Humanity efforts and its amazing how much you can get done in a day. Any takers? Are there any problems we are facing that we can solve ourselves as a community? Let's use our frustration/energy.

Where is We Love Milburn? Maybe they should be organizing a volunteer corp or other action. Why not? Aren't they supposed to be a civic movement? I'm hoping they are more than just BOE agitators.....good time to find out. Seriously, WLM leaders, organize some sort of a response. You can simultaneously do good, redeem your name and then people won't be so suspicious when you try and recruit newcomers to run for BOE. I know I sound a little snarky but I'm dead serious.

AD post a place to reach you.....and let's advertise it on social media. Bet you get lots of volunteers.

We need action on two fronts: 1. Lobbying and 2. Clean up

It's hard to tell if the utter lack of communication comes from the mayor being overwhelmed, incompetent, or too frightened to deal with her constituents. Whatever the reason, it doesn't work. The Township website is useless, her posts here are just as bad and the lack of any sound from the other council members is unacceptable. I have the sense that these folks are living in some 1950's genteel sense of what it means to hold public office and have no understanding of or interest in taking on the real work that the job entails. That being the case, they should step aside, whatever the blow to pride or ego may be, and let others actually run the town.

Actually three fronts: outreach. Bet we have families, elderly etc in need of help.

Ps my spouse and I are in....

everyone that wants to volunteer (if there are any) should meet up at a spot that has power (one of the malls????) and come up with a plan to address the problem and possibly come up with a good response to it.

When does everyone think Millburn Schools will return?

http://patch.com/N-fxnJ

Alright JKH, you're on. Tomorrow 10am. Suggest a place. If anyone has the resources to throw up a wiki somewhere, we can start creating a list. I created a google voice number and can happily give control of that to anyone else that wants to help run with this in case I'm tied up or you want to get more traction while I'm at work today. I'm going to be on and off this board till about 5-6pm after which I'll try and get a proper web presence/wiki up ASAP. I'm not a tweeter so all you people with hashtags et al, tweet away.

I was just told by JcPL that there are no trucks working in Millburn. Also our business administrator is busy looking for places to vote on Tuesday. Really how about getting power restored. Lower manhattan can summit Chatham Wayne and ct can.

Like to see the proactive approach to solutions on this board!
We've got to do something before this hits next week - http://tiny.cc/kzr5mw

Someone just told me power came on to hartshorn section any truth

I'm hearing about power in Deerfield area

Just advised that power restored to corner of Hartshorn and Parsonage.

Latest update on JCPL page is Millburn township still above 7k in outages, while Summit now in the 6k range (thats a 1k reduction to summit today).

I said it last year and will say it again but Millburn should change to a Mayoral system where the mayor is directly elected to that position and has statutory executive powers.

You may want to keep tabs on this. Last fall, the state Division of Rate Counsel, which is supposed to be the consumer advocate on utility matters, filed with the Board of Public Utilities a petition requesting that the Board direct JCP&L to file a base rate case under the belief that the Company is over earning based on the most recent financial and other relevant documents pertaining to JCP&L that are publicly available at this time. No idea of the status.

http://www.state.nj.us/rpa/case/electric/casematter_jcpl.html

I vote js beckermann for mayor mccheese of millburn...black comedy is always a reasonable respite in the face of grim news...satire a meaningful way to effect change and/or harpoon/lampoon weak performance....of course...lurking beneath the irony lies the critical question...is everything humanly possible being done to get us back online...?....for now...I am assuming the answer is yes...even as so many others are frustrated...go millburn!

Friends
Lets plan a meeting -SOON - call the mayor (I have her cell) and ask her to appear. Otherwise we're just spinning our wheels. Lets go.

some good news for a change Hartshorn school and surrounding streets have power

JCP&L Crews Restore Service to 490,000 Customers Affected by Hurricane Sandy
http://www.kctv5.com/story/19988212/jcpl-crews-restore-service-to-490000-customers-affected-by-hurricane-sandy

Jcp&l has informed us that repairs at sub station completed and the transmission lines will be connected if there is no problem on the lines we should start seeing more areas getting power

Thanks Craig for posting the announcement and Sandy, Larry et al for the suggestions/Wiki. We are going to meet TOMORROW at 10am at Bauer Center, Taylor Park. If anyone has alternative suggestions, take the initiative and add it to the wiki.
http://mshideas.wikispaces.com

Mayor Haimoff: There will be volunteers tomorrow @ Bauer Center (tentative location). Not sure how many. If we have a list of tasks that the township needs help expediting or adding manpower to (tree cleanup for example) please let us know.

if lines are going to be active and trees aren't removed yet, then are there trees resting on live wires? if so, removing them could be a really dangerous task

The goal is to do things within SAFE boundaries. Outreach/checking on elderly is also a great idea as suggested by JKH. If there are no wires around something, then perhaps we could help clear it from the road. Either ways, beats sitting around in a cold house!

Cant wait to sell my house in NJ and move to a nice warm and dry
Red state

Some semblance of timeline from JCPL:
https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/dam/newsroom/files/JCP&L_Town_ETRs_Nov2.pdf

Two of us just went to town hall where we found the mayor and a township committee member. Here's the bottom line: according to them, JCPL says they do not have the manpower to do two things at once: work on the substation problem AND clear the trees away from the downed wires in preparation for restoration of power. So in Gkenwood, for instance, where not a branch has been picked up since Monday, we will have to wait for the power situation to be fixed and ThEN they' will start to clean up the trees and wires. The mayor and councilman seemed helpless to go over JcpL heads to a higher authority.

BTW power is back on along Whiite OakbRidge

If JCP&L doesn't "have the manpower to do two things at once..." Then it's time for the Mayor to escalate the situation to the Governor's office. Surely HE can get more people on the job.

Thanks for going to townhall for the update . It isn't a good answer from our mayor but it is at least information. A bad job from our officials

If JCP&L don't have manpower can we remove the falling trees under professional instruction? Just let us know if you need volunteers

Thanks, Resident. Just reported that to the governor's office in hopes that he can encourage JCPL to work on more than one issue at a time. If the Mayor is not able to escalate to the Governor's office, maybe enough citizens reporting it will have the same effect.

If the SH Mall has generators, then why are they a priority to JCP&L?

Why not the Glenwood neighborhood? South Mountain? Wyoming? They are going to be sleeping in the cold tonight!

NJ starting gas rationing on Sat. Odd and even license plate numbers. Will post more info when I get all the rules.

Thankful and encouraged that some areas are regaining power.

However, extremely concerned about safety in those areas with trees/wires on roads and homes, it appears these fall into the category of last on the list.

I personally witnessed two industrial tree teams assess a 100 year old tree on a wire over house for over an hour before leaving the area. We only hoped it was to return soon with JCPL counterparts. Neither have been seen in days.

JCPL, township reps and tree teams should be working collaboratively to triage areas of safety concern.

The work order of streets should be posted and transparent for all residents in community.

Clearly, after two hurricanes and one ice storm, all with major long term consequences to community there is a need for a Millburn/Short hills neighborhood team to act as resident advocates in the face of crisis.

Not happy with JCP&L's uninformative, vanilla line of "bad storm we're working round the clock." If specific equiptment failed in our area, why did it fail and why's it taking this long? Maybe there are reasonable answers but they're not giving them which makes me suspicious.

is there anything we can do as residents of millburn/short hills to get rid of jcp&l and the current form of gov't in our town? I am absolutely tired of being short changed every time we lose power/have a weather related crisis..... Is it worthwhile to contact gov. Christie?

I've heard and read dozens of assertions about substations being "damaged" but not a word about how. Did trees fall on them? Did wind blow them over? My sense is that PSEG tries to give real info to their customers, JCPL does not. For that reason alone, we should be lobbying for a change.

Trader Joe's, CVS and Motion Fitness has power. We live on Myrtle and half of the block from the train line down has power, but the other half of us between there and Millburn Ave have no power. So upsetting that they have power two houses away!

I have lived in the Glenwood area for over 41 years. When I first moved in we had flooding and that was taken care of, but now it is extended outages every year and Glenwood seems to be the last to have power restored. A service truck from Ohio came onto Canterbury Lane around 1 pm today. I asked him if we were getting our power back today. I was told no. I asked if he knew when we would have power and I was told that he had "no idea". We are lucky that our homes were not completely destroyed and no one lost their life. I am greatful for this, but I don't understand why we cannot be told when power will be restored and when the
"town trees" will be removed. Services in town seem to be going down and the taxes keep going up.

I forgot to add that the people from Ohio were only assessing our street. We had to men from JCP & L assessing the downed wires last Thursday. How many people need to assess before something is done. Why can't they just get the job done.

I believe the assessments get fed back to headquarters (Ohio?) to generate work orders, which are in turn passed back to teams back at the site. No one can do anything without a work order.

How did Saturday's meeting go?

Where is the town forester-why are these trees like this

Bauer Center open tonight until 9 for warming Library opened tomorrow from 9 until 9:30 for warming If anyone wants to go to a shelter it is at Codey Arena If you can't get there we will take you

Polls for election day Dist. 1, 7, 10 Casa Columbo 119 Main St
District 2 and 6 Millburn Public Library
District 4 and 13 Gero Park Rec Center
Dist. 8,11, 14 1n3 15 at Community Congregational Church 200 Hartshorn Dr

Districts 3, 9, 5, 12 and 16 at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, 1025 South Orange Ave hours are 6:00am to 8:00pm

Dr. Crisfield for town council! We could use an articulate modern person. The mayor and the town council [where have the other four been hiding this past week?] have been non-entities. They love to smile and pose for The Item for ribbon cuttings and inane proclamations, but disappeared this week. Shameful conduct. I am voting for "Dr. Crisfield" as a write-in tomorrow in the town council vote.

Great idea, but Dr. Crisfield is ineligible. How about a serious write in candidate, like Dan Baer? If many of us vote for the same write in candidate, we could remove our ineffective "mayor" from office for good. Any suggestions? Matt Stewart perhaps?

That's a coincidence as Matt Stewart was my 2d choice. Great idea. I am sure Dan Baer would be great, but the 4-1 GOP majority [if Dan won] would aggressively stifle him.

I am sold....everyone should vote for Matt Stewart.